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Re:Shadowy tech brokers that deliver your data to the NSA by tptacek on Sunday January 24, 2016 @03:49PM (#10963960)
Which, to be clear, would still have been a disaster for Lavabit! It's not my suggestion that he should have gone along with the FBI and then continued to run the service.

But had he complied, as he was legally obligated to do, with the FBI, he could have immediately and gracefully shuttered the service without having given up the TLS keys that unlocked all communications to the site.

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Re:Shadowy tech brokers that deliver your data to the NSA by nitrogen on Sunday January 24, 2016 @06:53PM (#10964660)
I can't remember whether the Lavabit story was before or after the leaks. Would we still have the Snowden leaks if Lavabit had complied immediately?
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Re:Shadowy tech brokers that deliver your data to the NSA by tptacek on Sunday January 24, 2016 @06:57PM (#10964676)
It started after the leak (the first pen/trace order was from June 2013).
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